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by Caroline · Published November 14, 2016 · Last modified September 24, 2021
First published on Irish Country Living. When days are dark and the mood is gloomy, there’s nothing better than coming home to a kitchen that smells of something rich and gloriously savoury. Weeknight dinners are...
First published in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, 10 August 2016. As the feature I submitted was a little longer than necessary (it was the recipes, honest!), I’ve broken it into two for the blog. Part 1 –...
This was first published in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, 10 August 2016 but – as I got so carried away when writing about fabulous fictional food in children’s books! – there wasn’t quite enough space for all...
First published on Irish Country Living. One day while collecting the Small Girl from preschool, a teacher stopped me with a question: “would you like some lettuce?” For the last term, the preschool class had...
First published on Irish Country Living. When my mother did domestic science, as it was called in the 1960s, she used the Irish version of a book called All in the Cooking. This was an...
First published on Irish Country Living. The cheesemakers of Ireland sure do know how to put on a hooley. The cream of the crop gathered on a dark November night at the Grainstore in...
First published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 6 December, 2014. By Caroline Hennessy and Kristin Jensen. Wine gets a lot of press in the run-up to the big Christmas feast, but who says...
First published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 28 February: This is how to spend 24 hours in Belfast With sublime raw materials on offer, including Himalayan salt-aged beef from Hannan’s Meats, delicious rolls of...
